Thursday, September 19, 2013

Some kids have a hard time leaving and going to preschool... my Catie is not one of those. The Friday before school started we went to meet her teachers, as we pulled up to the school Catie climbed out of the car and called, "Okay, thanks for dropping me off!"

The actual first day of school came and went just as smoothly as I expected.

She was excited to be there and was so busy playing she couldn't be bothered to say good bye.

I loved her little ladybug backpack and she loves that she gets to take a snack with her each day.

She was so great that we celebrated with ice cream after her first day.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

I love birthday cake. I especially love that my girl's aren't old enough to make many demands so I get to make the cake that I want to eat. I let Catie choose the cake flavour, chocolate, and the frosting colour and the rest was up to me.

I should have taken a shot of the inside cause this was a pretty cake. I baked it in a 9x13 pan, then cut it in half. I cut each of those halves horizontally so I have 4 layers and I stacked them all up, adding a super yummy chocolate ganache between each one.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Catie's birthday was coming up and a birthday shirt seemed to be in order. She was super excited to be turning 4 and she loves this shirt. She wore it three day sin a row and told everyone she saw that she was four.

Monday, September 16, 2013

She turned 4! This seemed like an especially big milestones and Catie was extra excited. She was more aware of her birthday than she has been in the past so we decided to go all out and throw her a party with friends and everything.

I'll start out with a birthday questionnaire.

She had 5 friends over and we started off with a little Don't Eat Pete. There was some What Time is it Mr. Wolf? We ate dinner, cake, opened gifts and Catie loved being the centre of all, loved showing all her friends around.

All her friends, eating dinner together.

Blowing out her 4 big candles.

I couldn't be more pleased with Catie, she's at a delightful age.
She's polite, kind, sweet and finally seems to be potty trained. She loves school and gymnastics. Her imagination is growing every day and she's an amazing big sister.

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Since I hung my gallery wall I've been wanting to add more gold to my house and finally came up with an awesome idea, to paint a sea shell. I pitched the idea to Brad (I knew he'd care more about the shell than I do) and since it was a gift from his parents he wasn't too thrilled with the idea. I dismissed it but once again my awesome Mom came through for me and gifted me three shells. I figured three was a bit much unless I was going for a beach theme (which I'm not) so I only painted two. They just turned out so incredible!

I apologize but I didn't take a picture of the star before, here's the shell though, pre paint. It was a very nice shell, but just a shell, which is not my things.

I gave the shell 4 light coats and the star only took 2, in fact the bottom only needed 1. These shells painted up so quick and perfectly that I think it was the most satisfying paint job I've ever done.

The star is so delicate, and these shells catch the light and shine like I didn't expect.

Before I painted I checked on Pinterest for the best gold spray paint and found this awesome blog post that took all the guess work out, she did all the hard work and this is her photo below.

I liked the Rust-Oleum best so that's what I used and I'd highly recommend it.

I put these both on my fireplace mantel and the only thing that would make them better is more gold! I'm a little addicted.